March 27, 2021 08:01 am
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. March 27: Whew, now here’s some good cosmic news: NASA has given Earth the all clear for the next century from a particularly menacing asteroid.
February 23, 2021 11:56 am
CAPE CANAVERAL, Feb 23: NASA on Monday released the first high-quality video of a spacecraft landing on Mars, a three-minute trailer showing the enormous orange and white parachute hurtling open and the red dust kicking up as rocket engines lowered the rover to the surface.
February 19, 2021 07:05 am
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Feb 19: A NASA rover streaked through the orange Martian sky and landed on the planet Thursday, accomplishing the riskiest step yet in an epic quest to bring back rocks that could answer whether life ever existed on Mars.
July 30, 2020 22:00 pm
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla, July 30: The biggest, most sophisticated Mars rover ever built — a car-size vehicle bristling with cameras, microphones, drills and lasers — blasted off for the red planet Thursday as part of an ambitious, long-range project to bring the first Martian rock samples back to Earth to be analyzed for evidence of ancient life.
May 28, 2020 15:18 pm
NASA is rolling out the International Space Station’s red carpet for Tom Cruise to make a movie in orbit.
January 18, 2020 09:24 am
KATHMANDU, Jan 18: Amid forecast of the US-based National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) that the smoke from Australia's fires will make a full circuit around the world, there are concerns around the world if this would leave impact on other countries as well. Meteorologists and atmospheric scientists in Nepal, however, say there is no need to panic although there are some chances of receiving slightly visible effects in the sky over this Himalayan nation should the fire keep on razing at a dangerous pace.
January 15, 2020 20:13 pm
CAPE CANAVERAL, Jan 15: Two NASA astronauts ventured out Wednesday on a second all-female spacewalk to finish upgrades to the International Space Station’s power grid, but quickly ran into a helmet problem.
December 28, 2019 19:00 pm
PASADENA, Calif, Dec 28: A NASA robotic rover is nearing completion ahead of a journey next year to search for evidence of past life on Mars and lay the groundwork for the space agency’s mission to send humans into deep space.
December 3, 2019 15:55 pm
NEW DELHI (AP) — NASA said Tuesday that it has found the debris from India’s moon lander, which crashed on the lunar surface in September.
November 9, 2019 20:20 pm
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Nov 9: NASA, most prominent for its many Florida-launched exploits into space, showcased an early version of its first all-electric experimental aircraft, the X-57 “Maxwell,” on Friday at its lesser-known aeronautics lab in the California desert.
August 17, 2019 09:44 am
CAPE CANAVERAL, August 17: NASA picked Alabama’s “Rocket City” on Friday to lead development of the next moon lander for astronauts.
July 16, 2019 14:25 pm
CAPE CANAVERAL, July 16: Apollo 11′s astronauts are returning to the exact spot from where they flew to the moon 50 years ago.
July 9, 2019 00:05 am
NASA is sending a dual-quadcopter drone to explore the surface of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. Named Dragonfly, the mission will search for hints of life on a world similar to primordial Earth.
July 6, 2019 11:30 am
LOS ANGELES, July 6: The 1969 moon landing turned an achievement seen only in the imagination and sci-fi movies into a most improbable television event, a live broadcast starring Neil Armstrong and a desolate landscape.
June 28, 2019 10:30 am
June 28: Get ready to see another world from the eyes of a dragonfly — at least, a robotic one.
June 11, 2019 20:30 pm
FLORIDA, June 11: The largest planet in the solar system will be close enough to see without a telescope this month, NASA says.
June 8, 2019 13:05 pm
WASHINGTON, June 8: The U.S. space agency NASA announced Friday that it is opening the International Space Station (ISS) for private citizens, with a hefty price tag.
June 5, 2019 09:00 am
Timoci Naulusalu, a 12 years old kid from Fiji won Fiji National Climate Change speech competition. He was a seventh-grade student when he addressed the high-level opening of COP23 in 2017.
May 14, 2019 13:30 pm
WASHINGTON, May 14: The Trump administration asked Congress on Monday to increase NASA spending next year by an extra $1.6 billion as a “down payment” to accommodate the accelerated goal of returning Americans to the surface of the moon by 2024.
April 16, 2019 12:30 pm
April 16: The moon’s magnificent desolation is far wetter than scientists imagined. A NASA spacecraft sent to study lunar dust and atmosphere also picked up signs of water being released from the moon as meteors collide with its surface.
April 3, 2019 18:00 pm
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April 3, 2019 15:00 pm
WASHINGTON, April 3: NASA has made it clear they want astronauts back on the Moon in 2024, and now, they are zeroing in on the Red Planet -- the US space agency confirmed that it wants humans to reach Mars by 2033.
March 25, 2019 12:30 pm
A meteor that exploded above the clouds over the Bering Sea in December was caught on camera by NASA's eyes in the sky.
February 15, 2019 05:15 am
WASHINGTON, Feb 14: During 14 years of intrepid exploration across Mars, it advanced human knowledge by confirming that water once flowed on the red planet -- but NASA's Opportunity rover has analyzed its last soil sample.
February 14, 2019 13:30 pm
CAPE CANAVERAL, Feb 14: NASA’s Opportunity, the Mars rover that was built to operate for just three months but kept going and going, rolling across the rocky red soil, was pronounced dead Wednesday, 15 years after it landed on the planet.
February 9, 2019 12:30 pm
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shared new photos of Neptune and Uranus, revealing some of the latest mysteries plaguing the ice giant planets.
November 27, 2018 16:00 pm
CAPE CANAVERAL, Nov 27: Minutes after touching down on Mars, NASA's InSight spacecraft sent back a "nice and dirty" snapshot of its new digs. Yet the dust-speckled image looked like a work of art to scientists.
November 26, 2018 18:14 pm
FLORIDA, Nov 26: A NASA spacecraft’s six-month journey to Mars neared its dramatic grand finale Monday in what scientists and engineers hoped would be a soft precision landing on flat red plains.
November 7, 2018 14:10 pm
WASHINGTON DC, Nov 7: NASA is launching the Ionospheric Connection Explorer mission (ICON) from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Skid Strip in Florida on Wednesday, November 7.
October 30, 2018 16:24 pm
NASA's historic Parker Solar Probe -- enroute to the Sun to unravel its mysteries -- has become the closest spacecraft to it.
September 24, 2018 11:30 am
The satellite will send 10,000 laser pulses to the Earth every second to build a picture of the planet's surface and how it's changing
September 16, 2018 12:55 pm
WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 NASA's Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite-2, or ICESat-2, lifted off at 9:02 a.m. EDT (6:02 a.m. PDT) at Vandenberg Air Force Base in Southern California of the United States.
September 13, 2018 14:00 pm
CARACAS, Sept 13: Man may soon be walking the dusty terrain of Mars with the help of an umbrella-like heat shield currently being tested by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
September 8, 2018 12:30 pm
NEW MEXICO, Sept 8: NASA technology designed to protect spacecraft from heat and pressure when entering a planet's atmosphere will be launched from Spaceport America in New Mexico as part of testing.
September 5, 2018 14:00 pm
The deep-space journey of NASA's epic sun-touching mission has started out well.
August 29, 2018 10:13 am
For the first time in five decades, a NASA astronaut candidate has resigned from training, the US space agency said Tuesday.
August 21, 2018 12:00 pm
The idea that there was ice on the Moon tantalized astronomers for years, even before NASA’s Apollo mission to send astronauts to the lunar surface began.
July 23, 2018 10:25 am
US space agency NASA is preparing to launch a probe in August to study the Sun closer than any human-made object ever has, revealing multiple mysteries behind the star.
July 22, 2018 12:00 pm
WASHINGTON, July 22: It takes astrophysicist John O'Meara little time to respond to a question about NASA's most outstanding achievement.
July 14, 2018 09:44 am
NASA has released an image showing “spiders” on Mars, small darks spots on the reddish landscape with tendrils one could easily perceive as tiny legs. The marks were captured by the NASA
June 8, 2018 11:30 am
WASHINGTON, June 8: A NASA rover has detected a bonanza of organic compounds on the surface of Mars and seasonal fluctuations of atmospheric methane in findings released on Thursday that mark some of the strongest evidence ever that Earth’s neighbor may have harbored life.
May 27, 2018 10:21 am
KATHMANDU, May 27: NASA’s former scientist and astronaut Dr Sandra Hall Magnus visited Kanjirowa National Secondary School on Thursday.
January 7, 2018 11:40 am
CALIFORNIA, Jan 7: Legendary astronaut John Young, who walked on the moon and later commanded the first space shuttle flight, has died, NASA said Saturday. Young was 87.
June 20, 2017 09:10 am
WASHINGTON, June 20: NASA's planet-hunting telescope has found 10 new planets outside our solar system that are likely the right size and temperature to potentially have life on them, broadly hinting that we are probably not alone.
January 3, 2017 14:14 pm
NASA has unveiled a bold new concept to house astronauts on the Red planet, as the space agency continues the push toward its goal of sending humans to Mars by the 2030s.
December 2, 2016 23:15 pm
I had a dream to visit the United States of America and that came true last year. I also got an opportunity to participate in Space University Program at the National Aeronautics Space Administration (NASA), conducted by Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Twenty seven students from 21 different schools from across the world participated in the program.
November 27, 2016 21:15 pm
KATHMANDU, Nov 28: NASA College has progressed to the semifinals in the girls' section of the ongoing Rosebud Valley-wide Inter-school Basketball Tournament on Sunday.
November 26, 2016 09:21 am
KATHMANDU, Nov 26: NASA International College on Friday registered win under girl’s section of the Rosebud Inter-college Valley-wide Basketball Tournament.
October 15, 2016 09:00 am
PASADENA, Calif, Oct 15: NASA says a rocket engine burn designed to put a spacecraft close to Jupiter has been delayed until December.
September 26, 2016 19:53 pm
MIAMI, Sept 26: There's something going on beneath the surface of Jupiter's icy moon Europa. But what?